HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1890 — Navy beat Army 24-0 in the first matchup of this historic football series.

1934 — The Detroit Lions played their first traditional Thanksgiving Day home game and lost to the Chicago Bears 19-16 in front of 26,000. CBS Radio did the first national broadcast of an NFL game.

1987 — The New Orleans Saints held off the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-16 to assure themselves of their first winning season in their 20-year history.

1992 — New York Jets defensive end Dennis Byrd was paralyzed in his lower body after colliding with teammate Scott Mersereau and breaking his C-5 vertebra in a 23-7 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

1995 — Grant Fuhr became the 11th NHL goaltender to win 300 games as the St. Louis Blues beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-1.

1998 — Miami quarterback Dan Marino became the first NFL player to throw 400 touchdown passes, passing for 255 yards and three TDs in the Dolphins’ 30-10 win over the New Orleans Saints.

2003 — Cleveland forward LeBron James, 18, became the youngest NBA player to score 30 or more points in a game with his 33-point effort in the Cavaliers’ 122-115 doubleovertime loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. Kobe Bryant was 19 when he reached 30 for the Los Angeles Lakers in 1997.

2003 — Maryland’s Bruce Perry rushed for 237 yards while Wake Forest’s Chris Barclay gained 243 yards, marking the first time in Atlantic Coast Conference football history and the fifth time in NCAA history that opposing backs had more than 200 yards rushing in the same game. Perry scored three touchdowns in the Terrapins’ 41-28 win.

2004 — Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre celebrated his 200th straight regular-season start with three touchdown passes in the Packers’ 45-17 rout of the St. Louis Rams.

2008 — New York guard Chris Duhon passed out a franchise-record 22 assists in the Knicks’ 138-125 victory over the Golden State Warriors. Duhon broke Richie Guerin’s team record of 21 assists set in 1958. New York scored 82 points in the first half to break the record for most first-half points at the present Madison Square Garden, set when Kansas City scored 81 on Dec. 8, 1979.

2009 — Francesco and Edoardo Molinari became the first brothers to win the World Cup of Golf, giving Italy its first title in the team event with a one-stroke victory over Sweden and Ireland.

2009 — The Indianapolis Colts recorded their 20th straight regular-season victory with a 35-27 win over the Houston Texans. The Colts came back from fourth-quarter deficits in each of their past five games to become the first NFL team to win five in a row when trailing in the fourth quarter of each contest.

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees threw a career-high five interceptions, and his record touchdown streak of 54 consecutive games ended in the Saints’ 23-13 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Brees completed 28 of 50 passes for 341 yards.

San Jose State quarterback David Fales threw for 543 yards and six touchdowns in a showdown with Derek Carr, and the Spartans ended No. 16 Fresno State’s run toward a possible Bowl Championship Series bowl with a 62-52 victory. Carr passed for 519 yards and six TDs.

Andy Murray gave Britain its first Davis Cup title in 79 years when he beat Belgium’s David Goffin 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 in the first of reverse singles. The win gave Britain a 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series.